GW ep5: Edges, Ancestral Lines, and Relationship to Place with Joost Schouten and Andrea Langlois

Places Visited In This Episode

Place as fluid and many: place as name, geographical location, internal cycles, ancestral stories, and states of being.

Geographical and social and land-based relationships: from questions of being a settler or being a good guest, to stories we hold when approaching ‘new’ places, to stories of place that arise within vs stories of place shared by others.

Ancestral lines and movement: from broken and reconnected ancestral lines to the springboard of traceable lines, intimate ancestral lines of family to larger ancestral lines of humanity and our place in the history of the Earth and all who live here, and legacies to future generations.

Threads into and of belonging: from threads into and anchor points of belonging that arise through the familiar, such as familiar trees or language, and tugs of belonging that are not familiar or from before this birth in this body, to whether we feel we belong to Earth as a critical question for our times.

Episode 5’s Circle Members

Andrea Langlois is a Canadian-born enthusiast for the seen and unseen elements of life. She is currently living in France, near the Dordogne River, after following the whispers within and the calls of her ancestors. She contributes to the world as an organisational ecologist, consultant, facilitator of systemic constellations, and lover of earth-based ritual.

Joost Schouten grew up in the Netherlands and after roaming for two decades, now lives with his wife and two kids in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Joost is deply passionate about collective decision-making guided by our collective needs. Currently, he is expressing this passion though buidling and growing Nestr.io, a software platofrm for purpose-driven work.

Anna-Marie Swan is the host and producer of Generative Worlding. Anna-Marie'’s ongoing discovery of herself as an ecological creature saturates her work, interests, and perspectives. She is the source and host of Generative Worlding, the author of Cellular Rearranging, co-steward of the Facilitation Pods’ Commons, and the author of the Ecological Organisations Framework and the underlying story of ecological organisations (released under creative commons).

Pre-episode, the circle members partook in a practise that was born from the Earthed Community residency project and through the land at Wild Things Farm, in the Chew Valley, Mendips, Somerset.Generative Worlding is hosted on Substack. Become a free subscriber and receive our free abridged episodes into your inbox.